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What to know:
- Tom Lee, the ever-optimistic prophet of Bitmine Immersion, declares that the recent bitcoin market jitters-including Strategy’s minuscule bitcoin sale-are nothing but the whimpers of a market hitting rock bottom. How poetic!
- The sale of a mere 32 bitcoins for $2.5 million, a drop in the ocean of Strategy’s 843,700 BTC hoard, has Wall Street analysts rolling their eyes. “Economically immaterial,” they scoff, as if the world needed another reminder of their indifference.
- Despite an 11-day, $3.4 billion exodus from U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs, Lee remains unshaken. His firm’s grand strategy, he insists, is as steadfast as a Bolshevik’s resolve, and their ether accumulation marches on like a proletarian revolution.
Ah, the sweet scent of market anxiety! Tom Lee, the indefatigable cheerleader of Bitmine Immersion (BMNR), has once again taken to the pulpit to reassure the masses. “Fear not,” he proclaims to CoinDesk, “for this is but the wailing of a market at its nadir!”
And what of Michael Saylor, the Executive Chairman of Strategy, who dared to part with a paltry 32 BTC? Lee waves it away with a dismissive laugh. “He said he would sell, and sell he did,” Lee chuckles. “But fear not, comrades, for he still clings to 99.99% of his bitcoin hoard. His fate, like ours, is tied to the rise of the crypto proletariat!”
Saylor’s sale, at an average price of $77,135, netted a modest $2.5 million to fund preferred stock dividend payments. The first sale in nearly four years, it sent ripples of unease through the ranks of the faithful. Was this the beginning of the end for one of bitcoin’s most ardent champions? Nay, say the analysts, for the sale was but a speck in the vast ocean of Strategy’s reserves-a microscopic 0.004% of their total holdings.
Lee’s words come amidst a broader malaise, as U.S. spot ETFs suffer their longest outflow streak since their January 2024 debut-11 days of $3.4 billion in withdrawals. “Classic bottom behavior,” Lee declares with a wink. “People sell at the bottom, do they not? It is the way of the world, the ebb and flow of the capitalist tide.”
Yet, despite the short-term gloom and the panic of the uninitiated, Lee assures us that Bitmine’s grand strategy remains unaltered. Their accumulation of ether (ETH) continues apace, with last week’s purchase of 111,942 ETH worth $237 million. Their holdings now stand at nearly 5.4 million ETH, a staggering 4.47% of the circulating supply. The revolution, it seems, is well-funded.
So, comrades, fear not the tremors of the market. For as Lee so eloquently puts it, “This is what you expected at the bottom. The weak hands falter, but the true believers endure. The dawn of the crypto era is nigh, and we shall emerge victorious, laughing at the folly of the doubters!”
2026-06-02 15:12